New York City Police Department

updated Tue. May 1, 2018

Police Seek Help Finding Missing Queens Teen. April 17, 2018 at 11:23 am. Filed Under:missing girl. QUEENS (CBSNewYork) — The New York City Police Department is asking for help finding a missing girl who was last seen Monday around 7 a.m. in Queens. Mishel Martinez, 14, was last seen in the North CoronaÃÂ ...

Talk about a crafty criminal. Gregory Price, 59, was arrested April 16 on robbery charges after New York City police say they caught him trying to hold up a bubble tea shop in Brooklyn. Price was armed with what appeared to be a handgun when two police officers walked into Vivi Bubble Tea around noon,ÃÂ ...

The police department, for example, has the most light duty vehicles, so it now services similar vehicles from other agencies, including transportation ... This January, the city extended its fleet shared services initiative by welcoming the New York City Housing Authority's nearly 1,000-vehicle fleet into its fold.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The Cambridge police have launched an internal investigation into an incident on Friday night in which officers tackled and punched a black Harvard student they were trying to arrest as he stood naked in the median of a busy street. The police, who released a video of the scene onÃÂ ...

Among those he cited on Friday morning were a nurse chit-chatting with her sister, a retired New York City police officer scrolling through his phone while turning across four lanes and a plumber speaking to a client while zipping along a highway off-ramp. Once stopped, most expressed chagrin about theirÃÂ ...

In a clip of surveillance footage released by the New York City Police Department, Vassell is seen walking down the street wearing a baseball cap and a brown jacket. He suddenly lurches forward at someone pushing a cart into a convenience store and points what appears to be a metal object at theÃÂ ...

Police seeking to quell simmering anger over their shooting of a mentally disturbed black man on a New York City street released a montage of security videos Thursday that showed him minutes earlier thrusting a metal object that looked like a gun into the faces of several people — including a womanÃÂ ...

Two New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers helped a woman in labor deliver her baby on the side of the road on the Upper East Side on Sunday morning. CBS New York's Ali Bauman spoke with the parents at a hospital in Murray Hill. They said their baby girl, Claire, is healthy but her motherÃÂ ...

But his constituents appear to disagree: They say more people who work in New York City schools should be armed. Fifty-six percent of city voters who responded to a new Quinnipiac University poll said “police officers or armed security officers” should be stationed in every school. And when given a choiceÃÂ ...

Police brass didn't beef up the squads despite repeated warnings from within and outside the department that they lacked needed resources, the report found. "The NYPD's Special Victims Division is failing the women and men of New York City," Sonia Ossorio, the president of the New York City chapter ofÃÂ ...

New York City police are searching for a man who they say was caught on surveillance video praying before stealing from a Brooklyn clothing store. WCBS-TV reports the theft happened March 22 at Ziani Fine Italian Clothing in Brooklyn. Police say the suspect is seen making the sign of the cross before heÃÂ ...

SACRAMENTO — Hundreds of protesters temporarily took over the main foyer at Sacramento City Hall on Tuesday evening to protest the death of Stephon Clark, who was fatally shot by two Sacramento police officers last week in his grandmother's backyard while they investigated a vandalism complaint.

One evening in January 2017, after she had been detained for hours in a police holding cell in Manhattan and repeatedly told to remove a head scarf that is part of her Muslim faith, Jamilla Clark began to cry. Then, she relented: She let a New York City police officer photograph her without her hijab.

Three Muslim women have each reached a $60,000 settlement with New York City after they were forced to remove their hijabs to be photographed while in police custody, according to a city official and court documents obtained on Wednesday. Documents outlining the settlements were filed in BrooklynÃÂ ...

Boarding a New York City subway is a “test of your patience,” said Mark Taitt, who endures a twice-daily commute between Brooklyn and the Bronx. There are the surging crowds and the regular mechanical malfunctions that make delays routine. And then, as he witnessed during the Thursday morning rushÃÂ ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Police in Brooklyn are looking for a suspect who they said was seen on surveillance video tackling a teenage girl and then running off with her iPhone. It happened just after 3 p.m. Monday in Sheepshead Bay. Police said the suspect approached the 16-year-old girl fromÃÂ ...

While it's impossible to track dog ridership, Detective Kellyann Ort, a police spokeswoman, said, “Any summonses that may be issued for animals ... If it's not a service animal, though, the driver may deny you if your pet “is not properly secured in a suitable container,” according to the New York City Taxi andÃÂ ...

Launched by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the initiative empowered New York City police officers to stop and question anyone they "reasonably suspected" of having committed a crime or who, in the view of officers, was about to commit a crime. They could frisk a person if they reasonably believed thatÃÂ ...

While the New York Police Department does not generally hand over detainees to ICE, it does, through a bureaucratic backdoor, essentially provide a ... a nonprofit organization that is tracking arrests at city and state courthouses, 87 arrests were made in New York City courts in 2017, compared with six inÃÂ ...

The panel of Circuit Judges Rosemary Pooler, Gerard Lynch and Susan Carney affirmed the previous order granting summary judgment in favor of the New York City Police Department issued by U.S. District Judge Robert Sweet of the Southern District of New York. State law requires firearm owners toÃÂ ...

Bomb squad officers responded to a report of a suspicious package on a subway platform in Manhattan on Friday night but the item turned out to be a pressure cooker that someone had left behind. The 7:27 p.m. incident on the mezzanine level of the F train at Essex and Delancey streets caused a stirÃÂ ...

After a lengthy investigation and with the assistance of the New York City Police Department, Nassau County Police Department, and the FBI in New York City, Wilton Police were able to identify the suspects and arrest warrants were obtained for all four. In late January, the 32-year-old suspect's mother,ÃÂ ...

A federal jury returned a verdict on Friday on behalf of four New York police officers accused of falsely arresting a man on drug charges, rejecting the man's claim that he was detained so that the officers could earn overtime pay. The verdict, which came in the case of Hector Cordero, 59, also foreclosed theÃÂ ...

In New York City, a high school student was arrested for allegedly threatening to shoot up his school and trying to buy guns online. ... A teen who threatened a shooting at his Bronx school was arrested after he repeatedly tried to purchase guns online, police said Thursday as officials unveiled new plans toÃÂ ...

Darla Miles has the latest on the neurologist arrested for allegedly raping a New York City patient for almost a decade. ... Dr. Ricardo Cruciani, accused of rape, leaves court with his attorney in New York City ... On Tuesday, she praised New York City police and prosecutors for taking her case seriously.

Early into the final year of his first term in office, Mayor Bill de Blasio tacitly acknowledged what could no longer be ignored: New York City, like much of the ... The increased attention seems to have helped: The Police Department has preliminarily attributed 924 deaths to overdoses in 2017, although thatÃÂ ...

NEW YORK — A man hit by a piece of fire escape that had fallen from a New York City building has died. Police say 58-year-old Richard Marchhart died Saturday from a skull fracture he sustained when he was hit by the debris Friday. Police say the Garden City man was walking on Broadway inÃÂ ...

NEW YORK -- Two women were slashed in the face Friday on New York City's Lower East Side in what police are calling random attacks. Police responded to the first incident at 1:52 p.m. at Suffolk and Rivington Street where a 60-year-old woman was attacked, an NYPD spokesperson told CBS News.

HOBOKEN, N.J. (CBSNewYork) – There has been a security breach at City Hall in Hoboken, where Mayor Ravi Bhalla says he and his family have received death threats. Police said a man walked into City Hall around 8 p.m. Thursday, passed through a metal detector and told security he was going to useÃÂ ...

A runaway dog wandering New York City's subway tracks created a hairy situation for transit officials and commuters Friday afternoon. ... named Dakota, had escaped from a dog park in Brooklyn and somehow found its way onto the subway tracks, according to the New York City Transit Police Department.

Stephen Richardson was taking care of his friend's dog, an 18-month-old pit bull named Onyx, at his apartment in the Bronx, prosecutors said. On Dec. 29, according to prosecutors, Onyx and Mr. Richardson were playing in the park. Onyx bit Mr. Richardson, so Mr. Richardson stabbed him, they said. ThenÃÂ ...

SOHO, Manhattan — Two pedestrians were struck by a stair that fell off a fire escape of a seventh story apartment in SoHo Friday afternoon, according to police. The incident happened on Howard Street at Broadway in SoHo, near Little Italy, police confirmed around 1:40 p.m. Numerous shops andÃÂ ...

(Reuters) - A former New York City high school teacher and his brother were arrested on Thursday and charged with attempting to build an explosive ... is being investigated by the FBI's New York Joint Terrorism Task Force, comprised of agents of the FBI and New York City Police Department detectives.

A New York City police sergeant was acquitted Thursday of murder in the fatal 2016 shooting of a bat-wielding, mentally ill 66-year-old woman in the bedroom of her Bronx apartment. The death of the woman, Deborah Danner, became a flash point in the national, racially charged debate over whetherÃÂ ...

Since its inception a quarter century ago, the independent city agency that investigates allegations of police abuse in New York City has done nothing more with complaints about sexual misconduct than send them to the Police Department. In the 18 months ending last June, 117 such allegations wereÃÂ ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The NYPD has released photos of a person of interest wanted for questioning in connection to a double shooting in the Bronx. It happened just after midnight Monday near Ryer Avenue and Field Place in the Fordham Heights section. Investigators say the suspect shot aÃÂ ...

Police cordoned off the area for some time but later reopened it to shoppers. The crime scene was not yet cleaned up. “The cashier told me that it was a fight between these two guys – one had a gun, one had a knife – and there was blood everywhere,” shopper Angelo Lugo said. It's unclear what promptedÃÂ ...

According to police, the man rode a bus from New York City where he lives to D.C. when he ran into his situation. (Photo: D.C. police) ... The police department's official Twitter account wrote Saturday afternoon that they helped get a bus ticket for the 24-year-old man after he became lost and stranded in the city. According toÃÂ ...

Two police officers in a city near Columbus, Ohio, were shot and killed Saturday while responding to a 911 hangup call involving potential domestic abuse, the authorities said. Chief Joe Morbitzer of the Westerville Police Department said the officers, Eric Joering, 39, and Anthony Morelli, 54, hadÃÂ ...

One of the victims was an 8-year-old girl, identified as Amely Baez from Queens by police sources on Tuesday. Another pediatric patient also suffered a flu-related death, but health officials have not released any information. They were the first pediatrics deaths of the season in New York City. Baez wasÃÂ ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Police are searching for three men behind three armed robberies in Queens. Surveillance video from January 8 shows the masked suspects holding up a bodega on Jamaica Avenue. The men can be seen with their weapons drawn, pointing at people behind the counter.

STAMFORD — A city man wanted for a recent shooting in New York City was apprehended at the Stamford courthouse. Stamford Capt. Richard Conklin said New York City police alerted them to be on the lookout for Terrence Dugue, 22 of Dale Street. Conklin said Dugue was wanted for shooting through aÃÂ ...

Members of the New York City Council had two questions for the New York Police Department's brass who testified at an oversight hearing on Wednesday. What exactly happened on January 11, when police arrested 18 protesters and escorted federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents as theyÃÂ ...

A 37-year-old man was arrested outside of Bella Hadid's New York City home after he was allegedly seen standing near her apartment building on Thursday. The supermodel, 21, called the New York City Police Department to report a man had been stalking and harassing her between December 17, 2017ÃÂ ...

A masked attacker was being sought by New York City police Thursday night in connection with the stabbing deaths of a couple who was apparently ambushed as they arrived home from work on Wednesday evening, officials said. Stephenson Bonaparte, 65, and his wife, Hazel Brown, 59, were bothÃÂ ...

The subway turnstile — low enough to vault, ubiquitous enough to figure in the lives of millions of New Yorkers each day — has long served as a kind of dragnet for the Police Department. There, officers lie in wait, nabbing those who skip the fare. Of late, these rotating entry points and those who jump themÃÂ ...

A former Brooklyn prosecutor who admitted to forging judicial orders to run illegal wiretaps on a fellow prosecutor and a New York City police detective has been sentenced to one year in prison. Tara Lenich, 42, who began working with the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office in 2005 and served as the deputyÃÂ ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSNewYork/CBS News/CBS LA/AP) — A Los Angeles police spokesman said Thursday that the shooting at a middle school that wounded four students was not intentional. Spokesman Josh Rubenstein said the 12-year-old girl arrested in Thursday's shooting was being booked on aÃÂ ...

The 22-year-old Newark man who went missing Wednesday morning was found in New York on Thursday night, authorities said. Calvin Jones' mother told Newark police her son might have jumped in the Passaic River on Wednesday night after finding some his belongings near the water. Police usedÃÂ ...